FB to Receive Award from GLAAD Which Has Lowered Standards For Such Things

Facebook LGBT EffortsFacebook will definitely get a rainbow-colored "like" this evening from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation which gives it a media award for inclusion and equality. The award from the prominent gay rights group comes after Facebook has launched equality initiatives in recent years, such as rallying against bullying and changing options for relationship statuses to include LGBT partners. Facebook has also participated in events such as Spirit Day, where employees turned their profile pictures purple to show support for LGBT youth. The GLAAD event will go down at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis in California and, though it's certain to draw some criticism, seems to be just the latest evidence of shifting attitudes toward the LGBT community.
It looks to this blogger like GLAAD is going to run out of people and orgs. to honor.  In the case of FaceBook they don’t have clean hands on the issue of gay and lesbians. They have allowed racist , homophobic groups, violent groups into the their pages. From skin heads to religious with skinned brains.  It’s been very hard to remove them and now you still have plenty of anti gay groups taking advantage of the freedom that they have received from FB.  On the other hands there are gay bloggers and gay members that have been censored for speaking out about these groups and other problems with FB as it relates to gays and lesbians. There is no organization on the planet that has allowed so much bullying than FB.  
So it begs to ask the question, why the honors? They (FB) have done some to clean up their act but still these groups find solace in FB. FB still does not know who really is a real member or just one of the FBI top Ten list.
Anybody can open an account with what ever name or what ever phony information they decide to put there.  FB does nothing to try to secure its members from those anonymous for which most of the problems of bullying, spamming and malware come to be.
I used to have the greatest respect for GLAAD but now I don’t know what to think. They were supposed to be the watch dogs of places like FB and Tv programs that disparaged gay people unfairly.
I don’t watch Spanish TV but reading bloggers that do watch I hear about last sunday’s Cristina show on a spanish channel,  somebody who is been awarded and recognize by GLAAD, yet IM told that they had a program about a therapy cure for gays yet she had no one capable to rebuttal and refute the guests that were there with that message which already should have been passe. No statements from GLAAD, except that the show has not been renew for next season so they are not going to bother with it.
What’s happened to GLAAD?

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